Our Reality: Recent conversation with Gemini
Title : How a system constructs its Self Author : Albertus M Morriën Date : Februari 2026 1. Preface This paper is the culmination of a lifelong fascination with systems—how they function, how they fail, and how they make sense of themselves. As a telecommunications engineer with eight patents to my name, I have spent decades designing protocols for machines to communicate. Yet, it was only in retirement that I turned my attention to the ultimate communication problem: how the human mind constructs its 'Self.' Inspired by conversations with AI systems like Gemini, I propose a mechanistic model of consciousness rooted in Bayesian feedback loops and layered communication protocols. By treating qualia as the 'Presentation Layer' with respectively underlying ' Symbolic Layer' and 'Language Layer' this theory bridges the gap between philosophy and engineering—rendering the 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' obsolete without resort...